Deborah W. Meier is currently on the faculty of New York Universitys Steinhardt School of Education, as senior scholar and adjunct professor as well as Board member and director of New Ventures at ...

While policy makers agree that big city public schools are failing to meet children's needs, their solutions usually involve shifting responsibility to distant figures—chancellors, mayors—and relying ...

There can be no doubt that Deborah Meier and Diane Ravitch are two of the most influential figures in American education today. But usually not to the same people. Their philosophies are so different ...

In this book, In Schools We Trust, Deborah Meier disses the “high-stakes” testing regime that’s taking over our nation’s schools. Testing won’t save us, Meier argues. In place of killer tests and ...

Deborah Meier is my favorite answer to an important question: Is there some other way to make low-income neighborhood schools better than through the annual standardized testing required by the new ...

Deborah Meier, probably the leading American writer-educator of her generation, and Emily Gasoi, an experienced teacher working to improve schools nationwide, have written one of the best books ever ...

NORMAL — There have been a lot of changes in education in the nearly five decades since Deborah Meier has been a teacher. “But, in the broadest sense,” said the education advocate and innovator, ...

SANTA CRUZ, CA–Deborah Meier, founder of one of the most remarkable public schools in the country, will give a talk at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on Tuesday, February 25, at 7:30 P.M.